by Tyler Grimes This year, an estimated 10,000 recreationalists will utilize the Arkansas Hills and Methodist Mountain trail systems near Salida. Singletracks.com selected Salida’s trails as the number five spot on its “Top 10 Mountain Bike Destinations in North America.” The January edition of Elevation Outdoors featured Salida for its year-round mountain biking possibilities. Given […]

by Gena Akers Alamosa Residents Set Eyes on Arts Center A group of individuals have joined forces in Alamosa to purchase and renovate the historic Christian Science Society building near downtown. The space, which can seat nearly 200 people, will become Society Hall, a community gathering space to host live music, theatre, poets and writers, […]

Towns Sign on to Pact A group of Colorado towns has launched a “Mountain Pact” in an effort to reform the way the Feds collect royalty payments from the coal industry, and to offset the negative effects of climate change on their communities. Signed on to the pact are Leadville, Buena Vista, Ridgway, Carbondale, Aspen, […]

by Nancy Best Growning up in Pitkin during the Depression and working closely with her woodcutter dad in the woods since she was a small child, Adelina Taylor was a woman with many stories to tell. Some of those stories she told in Colorado Central Magazine. She loved reading the magazine, too, even being called […]

By Laura Van Dusen Antero, the sun-sparkled, windswept reservoir hidden behind low rolling hills seven miles west of Hartsel, will be drained beginning June 1 to repair and strengthen the leaking 106-year-old dam; water will flow downstream to Cheesman, Marston and Chatfield reservoirs. It’s nothing new. According to Denver Water, this drain is the eighth […]

by Mike Rosso Only 18 Months to Go … Would I be wrong to suggest that no matter your political leanings, we can all agree the national media is spending way too much time currently focusing on the 2016 U.S. presidential election? We’re talking about an event taking place a year and a half from […]

Salida-based artist Susan Spohn describes herself as a gardener, recreating in paint the magic she feels when in the presence of flowers, critters and nature. Painting memories, visions and whimsy, her favorite medium is oil paint. She paints on wood panels using bristle brushes, painting knives, turpentine and varnish. Her paintings of textural garden scenes […]

When Salidan Monty Holmes purchased nearly 30 acres of arid canyon land near Wellsville, Colorado in 2000, his original dream of building cabins on the property transformed into something much bigger and much bolder. Lacking access to electricity for the properties, he decided on another strategy, to “make lemonade outta lemons,” and did what any […]

By Peter Anderson We are in a library in a small mountain town. Another late spring storm has just arrived, bringing with it rain, hail and several inches of new snow. A traveler who has pitched his tent at the campground outside of town sits in this library looking at the weather through big windows […]

Indian Chai/Chicken Curry By Pemba Sherpa – Sherpa Café, Gunnison and Crested Butte (Dedicated to the people of Nepal) Indian Chai (Makes five cups) 1/4 cup of Chai tea leaves or seeds 2 cinnamon sticks About 1/4 cup of cardamom seeds (Break up the cardamom to release the flavor) Small piece of ginger 2-3 pinches […]

By Hal Walter It was the third such phone call from the school in seven school days; when I stopped the car about a mile from my house because I had forgotten something I really needed to bring to town, I sat there in the middle of the deserted dirt road slamming my fists on […]